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The analog process in a mechanical watch is the motion of the pendulum or balance wheel and, in quartz watches, the electrical wave produced by a crystal oscillator.
The pendulum swung away from those types of investigations during the 1980s and 1990s, though the FBI maintained an active counterintelligence function and was the lead agency for the investigation of foreign terrorist groups operating inside the United States.
The rest of the top 10 are: glass lenses, the orchestra, the clock pendulum, electrification, the birth control pill, refrigeration, anesthesia, indoor plumbing, and antibiotics.
As early as the 1780s, however, the pendulum had swung back, and many Americans looked to the courts to check the excesses of their legislators.
First, of course, came Frank Sinatra, his death the beau ideal of an on-time departure, given his image's pendulum swing over the last three decades from ultracool to camp to ultracool once more.